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Before the Manawatu Wanganui Regional Council BEFORE THE MANAWATU WANGANUI REGIONAL COUNCIL IN THE MATTER OF The Resource Management Act 1991 AND IN THE MATTER OF Hearing on Submissions Concerning the Proposed Horizons Regional Council One Plan for the Manawatu Wanganui region. STATEMENT OF EVIDENCE OF CORINA JORDAN 28th September 2009 STATEMENT OF EVIDENCE OF CORINA JORDAN 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 My name is Corina Jordan 1.2 I am employed as the Environmental Officer for the Wellington Fish & Game Council. I have been employed by the Wellington Fish and Game Council between 2007 and present. I hold a Bachelor of Science degree in Genetics, and Zoology (2007), with Honours (1st class) in Natural Resource Management (2008), from Massey University. 1.3 I have three years research experience specialising in Molecular Ecology at the Allan Wilson Center (Massey University), with three published papers. 1.4 The Wellington Fish and Game region encompasses the lower North Island, extending from north of Waiouru across to Norsewood and south to Cook Straight. This largely overlaps with the Horizons and Greater Wellington Regional Council areas. Over the last two years I have become familiar with a wide range of environmental issues pertaining to the Horizons’ region, including the impacts of point and non point source pollution, increasing abstraction pressures, and rural and urban water supplies, breaches in resource consents conditions, and the health of the regions wetlands, gamebird, surface water, and trout populations. 1.5 My job entails reviewing our population monitoring programmes, and undertaking population assessments; liaison with public interest groups, recreational hunters and anglers; and representing the Wellington Fish and Game Council in the statutory planning process. This involves assessing notified resource consent applications, regional policy statements and regional and district plans, for their effect on the regions game bird, trout fishery, and recreational hunting and angling values. 1.6 For the last two years I have been responsible for co-ordinating the Wellington Fish and Game Councils involvement in the Proposed One Plan. In this capacity I have attended numerous meetings and workshops with Horizons staff and other submitters. 1.7 I am familiar with trout habitat requirements, water quality and flow requirements to which these hearings relate. This evidence draws on my knowledge, various published scientific papers and reports, and expert advice from other Fish and Game technical officers and field staff. 1.8 I have read the Environmental Court’s Code of Conduct for Expert Witnesses (Section 5 of the Environment Court Consolidated Practice Note 2006), and I agree to comply with it. I confirm that the issues addressed in this brief of evidence are within my area of expertise, except where I state that I am relying on what I have been told by another person. 1.9 I have not omitted to consider material facts known to me that might alter or detract from the opinions expressed. 1.10 I am a member of the New Zealand Freshwater Sciences Society. 2 SCOPE OF EVIDENCE 2.1 My evidence will, from a planning and ecological perspective, cover the following matters so far as they relate to Wellington Fish and Game Council’s submissions: i. Cover the Background to New Zealand Fish and Game Councils including , statutory consideration, and the National importance of salmonids ii. State of the resource - Population monitoring iii. State of the resource - Outline case studies looking at the impacts on freshwater resources and recreational trout fisheries iv. Framework for the Proposed One Plan and General themes and issues v. Proposed One Plan provisions relating to water quality vi. Proposed One Plan provisions relating to water quantity vii. Proposed One Plan provisions relating to Beds of Rivers and Lake provisions 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3.1 In accordance with the directions of the Chair of the Hearing Panel the following bullet points provide an executive summary of my evidence, focusing on the conclusions arising from it in relation to the matters raised in the Wellington Fish and Game submission 3.2 Horizons Regional Council has functions and responsibilities under the Act for the maintenance of trout fishery and recreational angling values in the region and the achievement of the purposes of the Act. 3.3 Horizons Region has high trout fishery values, some nationally significant. The regions trout fisheries are at risk from point and non point source inputs of pollution, and increasing abstraction pressures, which is degrading the ecosystem integrity of freshwater resources. 3.4 Wellington Fish and Game support the approach of the POP, and the identified values, including but not limited to, contact recreation, trout fishery values, aesthetic and riparian values. We note that there is a substantial body of scientific evidence that supports the approach being taken in the One Plan. 3.5 The framework set out in the One Plan is one that when read in its entirety, provides a clear link between the stated issues through to the objectives, policies and methods including rules. This approach provides a regionally relevant translation of Schedule 3. The establishment of numerical standards give effect to the narrative within the RMA, ensuring that resources are utilised efficiently, and that the life supporting capacity of water and ecosystems are maintained, and the needs of future generations met 3.6 In general, the approach to water protection in the Proposed One Plan is innovative and, in my opinion likely to be more efficient and effective in achieving the purposes of the Act than established alternatives, including continuation of the status quo in the region. 3.7 The justification for a regulatory framework is based on the premise that without such a framework freshwater values will not be maintained or the purposes of the Act met. Evidence clearly shows that intensification of agricultural/horticultural land uses are significantly impacting on freshwater ecological integrity, including significantly impacting on the regions recreational trout fisheries and recreational angler values. The national trend towards continuing degradation of freshwater resources is applicable to the Horizons Region. 3.8 Wellington Fish and Game supports Horizons approach to controlling land use practices which impact on the Environment 3.9 In addition to the above, I have assessed the other provisions in the Proposed One Plan and drawn conclusions on possible amendments to address Wellington Fish and Games Councils submission and provided further evidence on matters on which the Wellington Fish and Game Council has submitted in support of the existing provisions. 4 BACK GROUND New Zealand Fish and Game, Statutory Considerations, & the National Importance of Salmonids 4.1 The Acclimitisation societies, predecessor to Fish and Game, were established during the early years of New Zealands settlement (1860s). During this period colonists, many of which the move to New Zealand was an escape from oppressions and poverty, found a land of moist and temperate climate, of rich and productive forests, and clear cool rivers and streams, where station in society did not depend on ancestry or title, and the right to hunt for sustenance and sport, was open to all. In his early (1922) history of animal and plant introductions, George Thomson wrote “They recalled the sport which was forbidden to all but a favoured few, but which they had often longed to share in – the game preserves, the deer on the mountains or in the parks, the grouse on the heather – clad hills, the pheasants in the copses and plantations, the hares and partridges in the stubbles and turnip fields, the rabbits in the hedgerows and sandy warrens, and the salmon of forbidden price in their rivers – and there rose up before their vision a land where all these desirable things might be found and enjoyed” (McDowell, 1994). These early Acclimitisation societies saw our augmented wildlife, some of which had already been introduced, as a true recreational resource, and they aimed to provide cheap and accessible hunting and fishing for all. To essentially protect what has come to be a traditional component of New Zealands way of life 4.2 The management of our sports fish and game bird resources has been reviewed several times since the advent of the Acclimatisation Societies in the 1860’s. Historically management was shared, somewhat uneasily, with the central government managing sports fisheries and gamebirds in some areas, and the societies managing the remainder. A review in the late 1980s resulted in the establishment of 12 regional Fish and Game New Zealand councils (FGNZ) and one national council, in all areas except the Taupo Fishery. Taupo alone is managed under the Department of Conservation, acting as a FGNZ council by agreement between the Crown and Ngati Tuwharetoa. Over the last 50 years the societies also shifted their focus. With increasing scientific understanding and awareness of indigenous biodiversity values and ecosystem processes, the Acclimitisation societies altered their management focus to one of habitat protection “Look after the habitat and the fish or gamebirds will look after themselves” has become our mantra (Harding et al, 2004). 4.3 Today all FGNZ councils are established and constrained by very specific legislation under the Conservation and wildlife acts to effectively “manage, maintain and enhance the sports fish and gamebird resource in the recreational interests of anglers and hunters”. FGNZ is responsible to the minister of Conservation in carrying out their functions, but have independence from central government as Crown entities. The twelve regional councils are elected from angling and hunting licence holders, to manage sports fish and game birds. Funding comes entirely from the sale of hunting and fishing licences, so it is a user pays user says system. FGNZ currently, has a role that is similar to the Department of Conservation in respect of the latter’s freshwater fisheries responsibilities, but we are responsible for different species namely sports fish.
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